prillalar: (angel)
prillalar ([personal profile] prillalar) wrote2003-06-25 09:01 pm
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Eat me.

ETA: OotP spoilers in the comments, but not the post.

OotP (no spoilers here) made me think about how LJ has changed the way I consume media.

Or more specifically, the speed at which I consume media.

Conversation on LJ is so ephemeral. Blink and it's scrolled past you and even if you're willing to read on skip100, if you comment, is anyone else still listening?

And so, now, I find myself rushing to see the movie or read the book as soon as humanly possible, so I don't miss out on the discussion.

If OotP had come out last year, I would still have read the book right away, but not 5:30 AM six-hours-non-stop right away. I would have taken a little more time and probably finished one read-through in the time it's taken me to do two.

It's about spoilers too, but mostly, I just don't want to be left behind. But it seems a little frantic sometimes, you know? Like we're consuming everything so fast that we're eating ourselves along with it.

 

Maybe I should take Friday afternoon off to see Charlie's Angels.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[identity profile] ex-mommybir.livejournal.com 2003-06-26 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
But it seems a little frantic sometimes, you know? Like we're consuming everything so fast that we're eating ourselves along with it.

*nodding vigorously* Uh-huh. Yeah. Uh-huh.
codyne: my wyvern tattoo (cards)

[personal profile] codyne 2003-06-26 07:53 am (UTC)(link)
Same here. I'm sure I would have read OotP eventually, in my own good time, but with everyone giggling and squeeing and posting about it, I felt I'd better pick it up and plow through it, just to keep up with the flow, as well as to avoid spoilers. And you know, the thing is, I don't think I enjoyed it nearly as much as I would have if I hadn't had 'must finish soon' in the back of my head the whole time I was reading it. I'm a little bummed about it, actually.

I expect I'll read it again one day when I'm actually in the mood to read it, and it isn't warring in my head with my pretty Japanese schoolboys, and will find it much more satisfying.

[identity profile] ari-o.livejournal.com 2003-06-26 12:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I actually read OoTP over two days with frequent breaks to sleep, make coffee, make guacamole, make cocktails, bake cinnamon buns, take walks, or make Dave hug me.

I stayed off-line and away from lj that entire time. I wanted it that way. Many of my on-line friends were disgruntled when I finally did get on-line because of discussions they'd been having and accusations that were flung far and wide about who was a "Real" Potter fan and who was not.

Of course I missed the good discussions too. But - oh well.

I really did miss having some one to talk to as I was reading. My room mate is studying for the bar exam and won't read anything - and Dave just finished Book IV. But I wanted the experience to be mine. Contained.

And when Sirius died I crept into Dave's lap and cried and cried and I couldn't tell him why.

*am dork*
prillalar: (Default)

[personal profile] prillalar 2003-06-26 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
...accusations that were flung far and wide about who was a "Real" Potter fan and who was not.

Jeez, really?

Re:

[identity profile] ari-o.livejournal.com 2003-06-27 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. But I just stayed out of it.

Talk about mean spirited...
semielliptical: woman in casual pose, wearing jeans (beach)

[personal profile] semielliptical 2003-06-27 07:16 am (UTC)(link)
Conversation on LJ is so ephemeral. Blink and it's scrolled past you and even if you're willing to read on skip100, if you comment, is anyone else still listening?

I have a tendency to stick interesting LJ entries in my memories - but then by the time I think to look at them again the conversation is over. And then, yeah, it doesn't seem worth commenting anymore.

What I would like, as an individual LJ reader, is a way to sort entries as I read through my friends list - even just to be able to delete ones I don't need to see again would be great. Then when I returned to my friends list I would see the new stuff, and the recent entries that I wanted to get back to or just check up on. Easier than browsing back through several screens of entries I don't need to see again to find the few I might want to read/comment on again.

One thing that can help LJ readers in general find out about a particularly interesting entry or conversation that started more than 12 hours ago is a link in a new entry - whether it's in a widely read personal journal or metablog. But it doesn't seem like this is a very common practice - it takes an extra effort and a decision that the conversation is worth promoting.

And I just realized I'm replying over 24 hours after your entry was posted.
Flat | Top-Level Comments Only